"Nomadland" is the winner of the Golden Lion at Venice and the People's Choice Award at TIFF. McDormand stars as Fern, a woman in her sixties who rebounds from losing everything in the Great Recession ...

Joshua James Richards argues that digital enables lower-budget filmmakers like Chloé Zhao to get movies made. Quentin Tarantino‘s preference for shooting on celluloid and aversion to digital ...

The themes and troubles that drive Chloé Zhao's Nomadland could be from anywhere. Everywhere there are people with too much sorrow and not enough money; everywhere restless souls strike out to see the ...

Editor’s Note: “Nomadland” won best picture, Chloé Zhao best director, and Frances McDormand best actress at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25. This feature, published ahead of the awards, asked the ...

Director Chloé Zhao’s critically acclaimed film “Nomadland” doesn’t reflect our RVing reality, but we’ve seen plenty of examples on the road that reaffirm the raw truth of this powerful story. It ...

“Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao’s latest film, is nominally a quiet portrait of a working-class woman, Fern (played by Frances McDormand), who lives in her van and works piecemeal manual labor jobs along the ...

There’s a lot going on in Chloé Zhao’s new film “Nomadland” (streaming on Hulu), not only because of its variety of incidents but because of its heterogeneous composition. Though it runs just under ...

Imagine a place on the map so tied to its industries that when the work disappears, so does the place. This shouldn’t be so hard to imagine; it is, in so many ways, the story of America’s ...

'Nomadland,' Chloé Zhao's Oscar-winning ode to independence and isolation, became an anthem for the dysphoria of 2020. By Robyn Bahr On Sunday, Chloé Zhao‘s elegiac neo-Western Nomadland made Oscar ...

Editor’s note: This review first appeared as part of Polygon’s coverage of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. It has been updated for the film’s streaming release. Frances McDormand seems ...